Strong quake rocks eastern Cuba, damaging buildings, infrastructure
Havana, Cuba Reuters An earthquake rocked eastern Cuba on Sunday, shaking buildings in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second-largest city, and the surrounding countryside. The quake, which the US Geological Survey listed as magnitude 6.8, struck Cuba’s southeastern coast in Granma province near the municipality of Bartolome Maso, where former Cuban leader Fidel Castro had […]
Cuba guarantees food rations in bid to defuse tension after protests
Havana, Cuba Reuters Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said this week his communist-run government has secured supply of key subsidised food rations as he moved to defuse tensions just two weeks after protesters took to the streets over widespread shortages. Diaz-Canel, who appeared on the mid-day TV newscast on Thursday, said his government had undertaken an […]
Cuba: Amid blackouts and scarce food, protests rattle ‘cradle’ of the Revolution
DAVE SHERWOOD and ALIEN FERNANDEZ, of Reuters, report from Santiago de Cuba…